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Project Muse provides full text access to a wide range of journals. We subscribe to the Humanities Collection only.
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Provides access to the Citation Indexes for: Science; Social Sciences; Arts & Humanities; Conference Proceedings and Books. Use for finding journal articles and conference papers. Databases can be searched simultaneously or select specific databases using the More Settings option.

Searchable digital archive collection of core scholarly journals, many starting with the first issue (some of which date from the 1800s). Stirling University has full-text access to the Collections: Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Arts & Sciences III, Biological Sciences Archive and Ireland Collection. We also have access to the 19th Century British Pamphlets collection.

Recommended Websites

Access to statistical information about religion. Includes topics such as church membership, surveys of lifestyles and public attitudes towards religion. The site also contains religious profiles of nations worldwide.

Contains religious texts from a wide variety of different religions, e.g. Christianity, Hinduism, Greek and Roman religion, Native American religions. Use it to find holy texts, creeds, canonical works and legends.